{"id":20163,"date":"2014-03-22T10:45:46","date_gmt":"2014-03-22T16:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=20163"},"modified":"2014-03-22T10:45:46","modified_gmt":"2014-03-22T16:45:46","slug":"bahrainis-fill-streets-with-protests-as-inept-regime-fusses-with-pretense-of-reconciliation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=20163","title":{"rendered":"Bahrainis fill streets with protests as inept regime fusses with pretense of reconciliation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/tyrannyfear-e1392478130736.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/tyrannyfear-e1392478130736.jpg\" alt=\"tyrannyfear\" width=\"425\" height=\"281\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19744\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/apcgas.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/apcgas-e1395505068156.jpg\" alt=\"apcgas\" width=\"425\" height=\"281\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20164\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bahrain Shias protest against government<\/strong><br \/>\n22 March, 2014 &#8211; Al Jazeera<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of Bahrainis, mainly from the Shia majority, demonstrated near Manama on Friday against what they described as sectarian discrimination in the Sunni-ruled kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No to discrimination,&#8221; chanted protesters brandishing Bahrain&#8217;s red-and-white flag as they marched along Budaiya main road, which links Shia villages with the capital, witnesses said. <\/p>\n<p>Some protesters later clashed with riot police, who replied with tear gas.<\/p>\n<p>Ali Salman, the chief cleric of the main Shia formation Al-Wefaq, was among leaders of the opposition who participated, according to images the group posted online.<\/p>\n<p>They carried posters of prominent opponents jailed over their roles in the short-lived uprising of February 2011, including the Sunni head of the secular Waed party, Ibrahim Sharif, who is serving a five-year sentence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sectarian discrimination is eating into the body of Bahrain in a systematic way applied by authorities,&#8221; opposition groups said in a statement at the end of the demonstration, referring to the Al-Khalifa dynasty.<\/p>\n<p>The protest was held on the occasion of the UN&#8217;s International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>Bahrain remains deeply divided three years after authorities quashed a Shia-led uprising, with regular protests sparking clashes with police, scores of Shia jailed on &#8220;terrorism&#8221; charges and reconciliation talks deadlocked.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/middleeast\/2014\/03\/bahrain-shias-protest-against-government-201432234146582423.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;more<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D20163&amp;text=Bahrainis+fill+streets+with+protests+as+inept+regime+fusses+with+pretense+of+reconciliation&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahrain Shias protest against government 22 March, 2014 &#8211; Al Jazeera Thousands of Bahrainis, mainly from the Shia majority, demonstrated near Manama on Friday against what they described as sectarian discrimination in the Sunni-ruled kingdom. &#8220;No to discrimination,&#8221; chanted protesters brandishing Bahrain&#8217;s red-and-white flag as they marched along Budaiya main road, which links Shia villages <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=20163#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[708],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20165,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20163\/revisions\/20165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}